Diversions and divergences in fields of play
Diversions and Divergences in Fields of Play reflects the critical efforts of its editors. They have organized recent, quality play scholarship into six thematic sections, including Theorizing Play, Traditional Play, Children's Play, Playful Primates, Resistant Play, and Intertextual Play.
Print Book, English, 1998
Ablex Publishing Corporation, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1998
Play & culture studies, v. 1
Cross-cultural studies
xii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781567503708, 9781567503715, 1567503705, 1567503713
40045171
Theorizing play. Introduction / Margaret Carlisle Duncan
Do machinists play with machines? Work and outdoor recreation among employees in the western Pennsylvania machine-tool industry / Garry Chick and Robert D. Hood
Play in culture and the jargon of primordiality : a critique of "Homo Ludens" / Mechthild Nagel
Playing against the self : representation and evolution / David Myers
Traditional play. Introduction / Alan Aycock
The cultural dilemma of traditional games / Roland Renson
A sociological comparison of Nigerian and American children's games / Evangeline E. Nwokah and Clara Ikekeonwu
Young children's play in socio-cultural context : South Korea and the United States / Jonathan Tudge, Soeun Lee, and Sarah Putnam
Children's play. Introduction / Garry Chick
The adaptive powers of being playful / Lynn A. Barnett
Measuring playfulness : development of the Child Behaviors Inventory of Playfulness / Cosby S. Rogers, James C. Impara, Robert B. Frary, Teresa Harris, Amy Meeks, Susan Semanic-Lauth, and Mary Ruth Reynolds
Construct validity of the Children's Playfulness Scale / Anita C. Bundy adn Jeanne L. Clifton
The impact of positioning equipment on play skills of physically impaired children / Jane O'Brien, Tonya Boatwright, Jennifer Chaplin, Charlene Geckler, Doug Gosnell, Jenni Holcombe, and Kelsey Parrish
Playful primates. Introduction / Garry Chick
Reactivity and play and exploration behaviors of young Rhesus monkeys / Rosemary Bolig, Cristofer S. Price, Peggy L. O'Neill-Wagner, and Stephen J. Suomi
Social play and estrous cycle : the relationship between social play and estrous cycle in a captive adolescent female chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) / Lisa Drummer New, Daniel S. Cunningham, and Karen Sughrue
Resistant play. Introduction / Margaret Carlisle Duncan
The 49th paradox : the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympic Games and Canadian identity as contested terrain / Steven J. Jackson
Symbolic inversion in the subculture of skateboarding / Becky Beal
The pleasures of resistance : the subversion of the martial arts / Margaret Carlisle Duncan
Intertexual play. Introduction / Alan Aycock
What's the matter with Falstaff? The structure of play in the first part of King Henry IV / Kate Levin
Owning up : Bourdieu and commodified play in the USCF Chess Catalogue / Alan Aycock
(Un)toward joy : movement, sport, and (the meaning of) life / Synthia Slowikowski and Nate Kohn